>> "Patrick" == Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Patrick> It is true that its hard to work out how to get the machine
Patrick> off in Linux. I use halt...which no-one here suggested. Is
Patrick> it not the most logical way to halt a system?
Halt did not sync the disks. If you ask some "
Well, that did stop that seg fault. However, now there is another problem with
the
same segmentation fault outcome. When I run xwp the nice little corel logo
pop's up,
but only for a second, and the terminal I ran it from says segmentation fault.
There
are no errors reported by the X server.
> After upgrading my system to potato, my samba services no longer work.
> I get an error message saying that the password supplied is not valid.
> Everything worked fine under slink.
>
> If I remember correctly, part of the instructions on the old setup was
> to remove password encryption so win
On 18 Jul, tyler spivey wrote:
| ok, if you cant shutdown why do you use linux in the first place?
| the command is as root:
| shutdown -h now
This is rude and uncalled for. Everybody has to start somewhere.
Comments like the above help no one. Better to let someone else
respond if yo
It is true that its hard to work out how to get the machine off in Linux. I
use halt...which no-one here suggested. Is it not the most logical way to
halt a system?
Patrick
- Original Message -
From: Kent Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, 18 July 1999 23:24
Subject: Re: Here'
Tyler:
Some of this stuff isn't entirely intuitive to us newbies, you know. Maybe
this should
be placed in the installation documentation, because when you're new to Linux
(or Unix)
it almost seems like powering off is the only thing you can do, unless you have
a
collection of Linux books at y
ok, if you cant shutdown why do you use linux in the first place?
the command is as root:
shutdown -h now
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote:
> Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off de
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 03:25:53PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> However it does not run, I go through the installation stuff (the text
> version, since the graphic version won't load)
You need to install xpm4.7 from oldlibs. That should fix the
problem.
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
> The -a option will allow other non-root users to shutdown the machine
> with the Ctrl-Alt-Del key press. You will need to create and add the
> non-root user names to the /etc/shutdown.allow file, again see the man
> page for shutdown.
IIRC, -a in thi
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> > > Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount
> > > script (it's the script that will get executed upon the shutdown to umount
> > > all the partitions).
> >
> > This should already be in place on a Debian system ;)
>
>
Hi,
I'm having some problems with startx: If I log in and type startx, X starts
but doesn't start the window
manager. If I ctrl-alt-backspace out of that, here's the messages that
startx spews:
> >
> > Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount
> > script (it's the script that will get executed upon the shutdown to umount
> > all the partitions).
>
> This should already be in place on a Debian system ;)
You never know.
When I upgraded to 2.2.10 from 2.0.
>> "Andri" == Andri Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andri> Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off
Andri> debian tells me at bootup that devices were not unmounted
Andri> properly. I don't use any commands to shutdown debian, I just
Andri> use the on/off switch when I'm finish
*- On 18 Jul, André Bell wrote about "Here's an easy question, how shutdown
debian?"
> Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off debian tells me
> at bootup that devices were not unmounted properly. I don't use any
> commands to shutdown debian, I just use the on/off switch when
I have noticed people talking about having wordperfect installed, and
I finally got around to downloading it from cdrom.com yesterday.
However it does not run, I go through the installation stuff (the text
version, since the graphic version won't load) and when it gets done
installing everything so
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote:
> If so, what is the command to shutdown? Or is it simply cntrl/alt/del to
> cause debian to stop everything from running and then turn it off at memory
> checking? That's the only way I know how to avoid error messages that say
> the system wa
Hi all,
I'm wandering if there is any sjis<->euc converter going around.
Would anybody kindly give me some information about this.
Thanks in advance.
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> poweroff
> shutdown (with some args, check the man pagesdopn't have my Linux box
> infront of me)
"shutdown -h now" is good. Remember to run it as root.
> reboot
>
> Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount
> scri
poweroff
shutdown (with some args, check the man pagesdopn't have my Linux box
infront of me)
reboot
Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount
script (it's the script that will get executed upon the shutdown to umount
all the partitions).
Andrew
---
You should always use one of the following (where you need to be root):
$ su -c '/sbin/halt'# To shutdown immediately
$ su -c '/sbin/reboot' # To reboot the machine immediately
$ su -c '/sbin/shutdown '
# To shutdown or reboot sometime in the future
You must be carefu
I'm having a hell of a time patching util-linux to mount crypt modules.
Anyone have compiled util-linux (international version) that can support
the kerneli modifications? Thank you.
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Certified Law Stude
Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off debian tells me
at bootup that devices were not unmounted properly. I don't use any
commands to shutdown debian, I just use the on/off switch when I'm
finished. Apparantly that is a bad idea.
I'm guessing there must be a way to get debia
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 12:00:29PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote:
> Is there an ftp site where I can get the debs for kde and qt (with
> matching version :)).
You can get qt1g (which is qt-1.4) from the following...
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/non-free/binary-i386/libs/qt1g-1.40-1.1
You should be able to add dlite to sources.list and use apt to get the lot.
Or am I overestimating my favorite tool?
Patrick
- Original Message -
From: André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, 18 July 1999 17:27
Subject: Re: What software to use for setting up an ISP web server
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 10:28:05PM -0700, Nate wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 10:06:29PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get KDE running, just to play a little bit. When I run
> > kde from the command line, I am told that various kde components can't
> > connect the X se
Hi,
My /dev/hdb was partitioned into /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2 primary
partitions. I used fdisk to repartition /dev/hdb1. What I did was (1)
delete /dev/hdb1 (2) Create an extended partition replacing the space
occupied by /dev/hdb1 (3) Create two logical partitions in that space :
/dev/hdb5
>> "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John> them. Any body have any suggestions? Please hold off on the
John> "Gourmet GEEK" jokes. I've heard them all.
Hmm, never heared of such jokes. Dare to post two o three? :-)
Ciao,
Martin
Hi Doug;
I would suggest that you do through the debian-user and debian-devel
message archive lists (ie: on debian.org).
You have probably "been hit" by the "perl problem".
An "apt-get upgrade" may or may not (at this point) bring things to
a "sane" point.
Those of us that are using "potato"
You can do this with proftpd. There is a DefaultRoot directive that will
chroot to a dir on a per-group basis. I have the same situation with a
group of web publishers. The first step was to define a virtual host (this
particular server is restricted to internal use only). Then each user is
added t
Hi Patrick Kirk, you wrote on 7/17/99 4:20:11 PM:
>http://opensrc.org/dlite/dlite.html is a
> debian for ISPs distro.
>
Thanks Patrick,
I'll start comparing what is in the distro with what I've already installed
to see if I have those packages already. I've installed of debian 2.1
(except for pac
Yes; but /usr/local/bin should precede /usr/bin and /bin.
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 02:49:29PM -0600, David Karlin wrote:
> > Better write your own poff version, which does the stuff you want and
> > then calls poff and place it into /usr/local/bin.
> >
> > If you change poff directly, the changes
Pollywog writes:
>
> GTK front end? Where can I find this?
gnome-apt in potato -- it's still "unstable." I don't know if anyone
is using it yet, so beware! Some of the GUI functions are
placeholders still.
You may get more mileage out of dselect at this point after a careful
read-through of
John Foster wrote:
>
> Wayne Topa wrote:
> > Thanks John, now I'm not the only one! My wife wanted one also, so I
> > started working on an Mysql solution one for her.
__
Hey Wayne; if you had any luck with MySql for implementing it as a
document storage
http://www.toms.net/rb/
is what you are looking for. it's the best in town. IMHO.
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, tyler spivey wrote:
> as most of you know from irc,
> i am a blind user using a terminal.
> thats why i need a linux boot disk with module support 2.0.36
> so i can test a driver on my old 38
After upgrading my system to potato, my samba services no longer work.
I get an error message saying that the password supplied is not valid.
Everything worked fine under slink.
If I remember correctly, part of the instructions on the old setup was
to remove password encryption so windows 95 could
as most of you know from irc,
i am a blind user using a terminal.
thats why i need a linux boot disk with module support 2.0.36
so i can test a driver on my old 386 without overwriteing dos.
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On 17-Jul-99 Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> Hmm, While I agree that dselect could use some functionality to
> help users who screw up dependancy's It's far from antiquated.
> In fact, as a former RedHat (RPM) user, I can say that the
> debian package management system (and it's frony end, dselect)
> is v
ok, i am mailing fgrom a shell accout,.
and, why does it give me the error:
init_modtp.dtpc.o: init_module: device or resource busy
?
i am trying to find a module-able bootdisk ith the 2.0.36 kernel
so i can test dtpc.o on my 386
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Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> Subject: Sort of a Debian question
> Date: Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 12:39:04AM -0500
>
> In reply to:John Foster
>
> Quoting John Foster([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > OK please hold the laughter, this is serious business..
> > I need a recepie book template or dat
Hmm, While I agree that dselect could use some functionality to
help users who screw up dependancy's It's far from antiquated.
In fact, as a former RedHat (RPM) user, I can say that the
debian package management system (and it's frony end, dselect)
is very advanced. Keep in mind, dselect is the -s
When I run kde as a normal user and change the panel settings, it is not saving
them. Is there a way to kde to remember the changes I make the next time I
login?
Thanks,
chris
--
Where there's a will, there's an Inheritance Tax.
hi.
from Altag.
I can't figure out why Dselect package
,loving debian so strong, is so antiquate and
really unfriendly.
from debian-developers really nothing better?
Alex
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On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 03:03:21AM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I am fairly sure that Dell has
> pulled a similar fast one as they did on booting CDs (supported in bios
> but does not work).
My search for sound on this laptop still continues, but mine boots
cd's with ease. Hmmm... very strange... Ma
Subject: Sort of a Debian question
Date: Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 12:39:04AM -0500
In reply to:John Foster
Quoting John Foster([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> OK please hold the laughter, this is serious business..
> I need a recepie book template or data base to use on my Debian Linux
> b
...
>You have glib.h. The error is saying it cannot find glibconfig.h. I had the
>same problem just now. A search yields:
>
>$ dpkg -S glibconfig.h
>libglib1.2-dev: /usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h
>
>So the answer to this is to add /usr/lib/glib/include to our include paths.
For p
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 10:48:53PM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
>
> The error messages during the configureation of setserial said that my
> modules needed to be updated and to run
> "update-module force" and run configure again. Well, I did this and the
These days the Debian way is to crea
Mike Brownlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> egm2@jps.net wrote:
> > line speed parameter) but it errored when trying to find
> > /usr/include/glib.h because I don't have it. I have many of the *-dev
> ...
> > /usr/include/glib.h:66: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory
> ...
> > Eric G. Miller
>
Any here have sound working on their Inspiron 3000?
I have my BIOS audio settings as follows:
Audio= Enabled
SB I/O= 220h
WSS I/0=388h
Adlib I/0= IRQ5
DMA1
DMA0
When I modprobe cs4232 I get the following error:
/lib/modules/2.2.10/mi
hello, i am new to this list, and love debian.
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> Thanks for all of the help!
>
> I ended up removing the ne module and replaceing it with the io=0x300 irq=3
> specified in
Thanks for all of the help!
I ended up removing the ne module and replaceing it with the io=0x300 irq=3
specified in
the options.
I can now telnet to my system, so I think its fixed! I will check it out the
rest of
the way in the morning,
Doug
THANK YOU!
Doug
Jim wrote:
> The easiest way
On 07/17/99 11:59 PM, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> Ok,
>
> I went into modconf and select "net" and "ne".
>
> It said that this module was currently installed on my system. It gave me
> two choices,
>
> Exit or Remove the module from the kernel.
> Where do I specify the io-0x300? I do not see
You might rather use XDM.
- Original Message -
From: Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian user list
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 1:21 AM
Subject: stop gnome-session to record xterms?
> Hello,
>
> i have the folowing problem: i can't log graphically on my computer unless
i
> lo
egm2@jps.net wrote:
> line speed parameter) but it errored when trying to find
> /usr/include/glib.h because I don't have it. I have many of the *-dev
...
> /usr/include/glib.h:66: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory
...
> Eric G. Miller
> Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!
You ha
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 08:36:29AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote
> Hello, I will try this question again without the attempt at humor...
>
> I upgraded my slink system to potato using dselect 3-4 days ago. After
> the initalruns through dselect/install/config/remove there weretwo
> problems s
Ok,
I went into modconf and select "net" and "ne".
It said that this module was currently installed on my system. It gave me two
choices,
Exit or Remove the module from the kernel.
Where do I specify the io-0x300? I do not see anywhere in the modconf that
allows me to
edit anything.
Doug
J
The easiest way for us to fix this would be by running modconf. Hopefully
nothing else is broken (which we'll find out soon).
As root, run:
modconf
Then go to "net" and then "ne" and enable the module for your card. The
reason you aren't detecting the card? modprobe will generally only detect
Thanks for the reply.
I am not sure if I was using module or kernel for the network card. I have had
this system for awhile (potato is the third debian distrubution I have used, and
the network settings were setup at the very beginning. How would I tell? The
current kernel version seems to be 2
On 07/17/99 10:48 PM, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> Hello, I hope someone can help me with this. It seems like it should
> not to hard to fix, but without any knowledge of how or where the
> network services are started / initialized, I don't think I will figure
> it out without help.
>
Hmm. I;m
Thanks for the reply Jim!
I have a standard NE2000 card (cheap one I got for about $20).
Everything was working fine until my last moves that I described below. My
network was
working after the potato upgrade until I "fixed" the last two problems taht
dselect
caused. I rebooted, and the netwo
A new mirror of ftp.debian.org is available for you at
http://gusp.infogroup.it/debian
or
ftp://gusp.infogroup.it/pub/debian
i386 part is already complete, while filling of alpha, m68k and arm is
in progress. Mirrored distributions are stable and unstable. non-US is
also available.
Pf
--
Hello, I hope someone can help me with this. It seems like it should
not to hard to fix, but without any knowledge of how or where the
network services are started / initialized, I don't think I will figure
it out without help.
I upgraded my slink system to potato using dselect about a week ago.
OK please hold the laughter, this is serious business..
I need a recepie book template or data base to use on my Debian Linux
box. I am embarking on setting up a collection of family recepies,
there are hundreds, and want some method of cataloging and organizing
them. Any body have any suggest
Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 18-Jul-99 John Foster wrote:
> >
> ># Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
> ># your mirror contains.
> ># deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
> ># See sources.list(5) for more information, especial
> ># Remember that yo
Is there a debian (linux) version for a motherboard temperature monitoring
program
like the MBM for NT
-Oz
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PHONE Fax (
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 10:06:29PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get KDE running, just to play a little bit. When I run
> kde from the command line, I am told that various kde components can't
> connect the X server, and it craps out, even as root.
Add the following line to
Hi,
I'm trying to get KDE running, just to play a little bit. When I run
kde from the command line, I am told that various kde components can't
connect the X server, and it craps out, even as root.
I have a fairly messy setup, and I am not sure what to try next.
I've already spen
On 07/17/99 09:12 PM, egm2@jps.net wrote:
> I was trying to recompile gphoto from source (to change a hardwired
> line speed parameter) but it errored when trying to find
> /usr/include/glib.h because I don't have it. I have many of the *-dev
> packages, so I was wondering what package I'm missing
I was trying to recompile gphoto from source (to change a hardwired
line speed parameter) but it errored when trying to find
/usr/include/glib.h because I don't have it. I have many of the *-dev
packages, so I was wondering what package I'm missing. I tried a
search, but the packages I came up wi
>> "Pollywog" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pollywog> I do notice that you have both stable and unstable sources in the
same file
Pollywog> and I wonder how the system does not downgrade some of your packages.
Because apt-get only considers the newest version of a packages found
in mu
On 18-Jul-99 John Foster wrote:
>
># Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
># your mirror contains.
># deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
># See sources.list(5) for more information, especial
># Remember that you can only use http, ftp or fil
On 18-Jul-99 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 02:05:31AM -, Pollywog wrote:
>> Adding new entries to my /etc/apt/sources.list has been a trial and error
>> process for me, but I could not manage this one:
>>
>> ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/main
Hopefully this gets back to whoever asked originally..
You could roll a solution using chroot() to move the user into their
home dir - all it costs is the disk space to recreate the bin and lib
trees.
Carl
On 18-Jul-99 John Foster wrote:
> That is all handled via granting permissions to their /home directories
> and establishing a path for these users that allows the access to only
> those prgs that you want them to use.
If a user knows the path to some program that is not in their path, could they
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 02:05:31AM -, Pollywog wrote:
> Adding new entries to my /etc/apt/sources.list has been a trial and error
> process for me, but I could not manage this one:
>
> ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/main/binary-i386/
>
> Anyone care to enlighten me
Pollywog wrote:
>
> Adding new entries to my /etc/apt/sources.list has been a trial and error
> process for me, but I could not manage this one:
>
> ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/main/binary-i386/
---
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 02:05:31AM -, Pollywog wrote:
> Adding new entries to my /etc/apt/sources.list has been a trial and error
> process for me, but I could not manage this one:
>
> ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/main/binary-i386/
>
> Anyone care to enlighten me
lena wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I am a newbie with administrating my own Debian server, and got problems
> that got to do with security.
>
> I have 20 different users that got both ftp and telnet access to the server
> /using it for web publishing/. I would like to add they got access to their
> root
Adding new entries to my /etc/apt/sources.list has been a trial and error
process for me, but I could not manage this one:
ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/main/binary-i386/
Anyone care to enlighten me? Pointing to documentation would be sufficient.
thanks
--
Andrew
On 18-Jul-99 Pollywog wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can get gs-pdfencrypt? It seems all the links to
> it
> are dead on the Debian site.
Nevermind folks. I finally found it on one Debian mirror.
--
Andrew
Does anyone know where I can get gs-pdfencrypt? It seems all the links to it
are dead on the Debian site.
--
Andrew
hallo
i try to install debian linux on a notebook Travelmate 5300 (from Texas Inst.),
but (as i will install the debian applications from the internet) when i
configure the pcmcia support in the dbootstrap, the computer freezes and the
instalation is stopped
my pcmcia ethernet card is a LinkPo
This is true but also please try to appreciate the nature and the
magnitude of the problem. Almost every distribution of Linux (and
for that matter UNIX) have critical differences in the fine details
of how certain tasks are accomplished. There is almost NO task that
has only one "right" way to
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